1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs by Denonvilliers Company

1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs by Denonvilliers Company

This splendid archive of decorative ironwork designs, painstakingly reprinted from a rare French volume, includes 1,100 illustrations of elaborate motifs used to enhance such diverse architectural elements as doorway and balcony grilles, gates, garden seats, door panels, columns, and funeral monuments.
Among the illustrations are intricate, finely detailed images of diminutive rosettes, hat hooks, doorknobs, and clotheshorses; iron fencing for cemetery plots; water fountains, candelabra, metal bench frames, garden urns, gargoyles, umbrella stands, finials, and crosses; designs for friezes and moldings; and many other types of decorate antique ironwork. All items are identified by English translations of the original French captions.
An invaluable source of information for art historians, craftsmen, dealers, collectors, preservationists--anyone interested in historic ironwork--this magnificent treasury of copyright-free graphics will be welcomed as well by commercial artists, designers, and craftspeople as a rich source of visual inspiration and immediately usable art.
Unabridged Dover (2000) republication of Fontes de fer de toutes espéces (Ironwork of All Kinds), published by Fonderies D'Osne-le-Val L. Denonvilliers, Paris, n.d. 86 plates with 1,100 black-and-white illustrations.

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ISBN 13	9780486412238
ISBN 10	0486412237
Title	1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs
Author	Denonvilliers Company
Series	Dover Pictorial Archive
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2000-12-01
Number of pages	96
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.